Items

• F1b-124: Cartwright Memorial Hall

  One of a collection of large printed cards with photographs of old Bradford
• F1b-131: Bradford Town Hall - c.1890s

  One of a collection of large printed cards with photographs of old Bradford
• 2018.41.4: Saltaire Mills from the North West

  Framed brown and green toned print of 'Saltaire Mills from the North West. The image shows very few houses but the Mill is complete along with the church and Victoria Hall. Victoria Hall was completed in 1869 so this image must be from the 1870's before the building of the village was complete.
• 2022.28: Bradford City Hall - A History and Guide

  Coloured paperback book - Map of Bradford on 1st page. Coloured and black and white photographs inside
• C2a-046a-b: Wedding photograph

  Photograph (with identification information) of marriage of Albert Smith and Alice Ince 2nd Sept 1901. Taken at Victoria Hall
• C2b-094a-d: Army Medical Corp

  Photograph of the Army Medical Corps 'Shipley' detachment outside Victoria Hall, Sataire in 1914. Also an extract from the Shipley Times and Express
• C2b-105a-i: Stonemason's marks

  Collection of 9 photographs of stone-mason's marks on the tower of Victoria Hall
• D1-092a-b: Victorian Reed Organ and Harmonica Museum

  2 Laminated copies of an article in the Yorkshire Post on the 'Victorian Reed Organ and Harmonica Museum' in Victoria Hall, Saltaire, run by Pam & Phil Fluke
• D1-146: Opening of the Victorian Reed Organ Museum

  Telegraph & Argus cuttings on the opening of the Victorian Reed Organ Museum in Victoria Hall
• D1-147: Victorian Reed Organ Museum

  Telegraph & Argus cuttings on the Victorian Reed Organ Museum in Victoria Hall
• D1-003: Lecture at the Saltaire Institute

  A copy of a report from the Saltaire Magazine of 1871 of the first lecture to be held in the Saltaire Club and Institute on 18 January . The lecture was given by W.F. Barrett of London on the subject of 'Electricity and the Electric Telegraph'. The article reports that there were 600 people present. The lecturer demonstrated ideas using successful experients. Half the article is taken up with a condemnation of the actions of 'boys' in the audience who had 'chewed tobacco, and polluted the floor in several parts of the hall with their filthy spittals'.
• Fairlight Hall, East Sussex, United Kingdom

  A Victorian gothic mansion in its own grounds near Hastings in East Sussex. A home of Sir James Roberts in his later life.
• F1b-061a: Shipley

  Photograph of 'Princess Hall Cinema' Shipley
• D1-165: Photograph of attendees of a Saltaire Conversazione

  A photograph of a large group of people in Victoria Hall attending a Saltaire Conversazione. The group is posed with people standing, sitting on chairs or sitting on the floor. All are wearing evening-wear.
• E2-061a-d: Fee Receipt for James Lambert's Art Class

  'The Salts School: The Institute Class Fee Receipt for James Lambert's Art Class (24th May 1886)
• C2b-086: General William Booth arrives in Saltaire

  Photograph of the arrival of General William Booth of the Salvation Army to Victoria Hall in 1907
• A3-056: Salt Family: Royal Visits

  Letter from Mary Rouse of Firby Hall, Bedale to 'Kate' Salt (??)
• B1-229: Salts Mill - General

  Folder of mock-up sample pages for a book 'About Salts of Saltaire' by Percy Lund,Humphries
• Lockwood, Henry Francis

  Influential British architect. In 1849 he formed a highly successful partnership with William Mawson. They designed major buildings in Bradford, including St George's Hall and the Wool Exchange. Sir Titus Salt engaged them to desgn his new Salts Milll and its surrounding village of Saltaire, including its many publoic buildings.
• Sharp, Dorothy

  Over 6,000 Items make up the Saltaire Collection today and it all started with one person, Dorothy Sharp. Dorothy came to Saltaire in 1984 and was employed temporarily at Shipley Library, then located in Victoria Hall. Her first job was to sift through the local history collection to find materials suitable for schoolchildren. Later in 1984 Dorothy moved to nearby Shipley College as an assistant librarian and developed her interest in Saltaire's history. In 1987/88 Dorothy helped set up the 'Saltaire Resouce Base' - to support visiting schools - in the reopened Salts Mill, now a business, leisure and art centre being developed by local entrepreneur Jonathan Silver. Dorothy became known locally as someone who was interested in collecting and preserving materials to do with Saltaire. And so the donations came in, and the Saltaire Collection (as it is called now) was born and began to grow!